December 2007 Archives

A cross-section of today’s front pages selected by Robb Montgomery.

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The UK newspapers’ adult readership on an average day fell from 26,7 million in 1992 to 21,7 million last year.

MTV has joined the Associated Press to launch “Street Team ’08,” a project involving 51 citizen journalists, one for each state and Washington D.C., to cover the presidential race and the next Congressional elections.

The New York Times has begun publishing user-reported videos, produced by PurpleStates.TV, about the primaries on its website.

The White House 'forced' - formally requested - the New York Times to change the subheadline of an article about the CIA’s destruction of secret interrogation videotapes of AL-Qaeda, published last Wednesday.

Being a quality daily in the US might entail a few things, but does it justify not using the word ‘dick’, when the word is part of the title of a play produced by the Washington Shakespeare Co., and that the Washington Post’s story in which the word is omitted is a review about the play?

Would you have named Russian president Vladimir Putin ‘Person of the Year’? Time magazine did, and it explains why.

Tribune Co. announced Thursday it had completed its move to go private, by merging with an acquisition unit of the Tribune Employee Stock Ownership. Chairman and chief exec Dennis FitzSimons announced he is steping down from his position.

Follow the Media’s Philip Stone takes a look at ACAP, the recently launched Automatic Content Access Protocol designed to help publishers control the way search engines crawl their content. Unfortunately, while many publishers support ACAP, major search engines have yet to adopt it.

Traffic continued to grow at telegraph.co.uk through November, up by 1.7m users, to 12.8m, in third place behind Guardian Unlimited and the Daily Mail online.

The news site metro.co.uk launched its new video-sharing site MeView. The Dailymotion-like site proposes an engaging concept from the start: users can earn money from the clips they upload.

MTV owner Viacom signed a $500m (£250m) contract with Microsoft to use its Atlas advertising and content system for the next five years, effectively replacing DoubleClick.

The top triumvirate of Le Monde group jointly resigned last night, after the Society of Journalists of Le Monde (SRM) vetoed the 2007 financial round-up and provisional budget for 2008 for Le Monde’s digital branch, Le Monde Interactif.

On numerous occasions there has been debate as to whether some bloggers could be considered journalists. As many now realize though, the publishing platform, blogs, doesn’t define whether the content is journalism – but can blogs be conducive to online journalism?

In light of the change to the Federal Communications Commission’s rule to media cross-ownership, a paragraph in the Washington Post’s story could be interpreted to imply that media convergence isn’t as attractive to newspaper companies as it once was, say, before the rise of online video. But is media convergence really the past?

Since people spend a lot of time in public transports, the Press-Gratuite blog argues that the free newspapers turned this “waste of time” into a beneficial market.

A recently published study about bias in the media, conducted by a Purdue University political sociologist, tends to show American people' lack of trust in the media may lead to less concern about politics.